Millions experience the repressive nature of the U.S. immigration system on a daily basis, lifting its need for reform to a level of urgency. And fixing this broken program is integral to building the unity among U.S. workers that is required to challenge corporate America’s attacks on our wages, rights, public social services, and living conditions.

There are all manner of things that get done with our tax payer cash. Countless. If we learned of them all just today, most voters would probably demand to elect entirely new representatives from entirely new parties. If the cable news network’s decided each to dedicate a full day to listing all the things they went to, each taking a separate day in successive order, there would be hell to pay. Just think of the things we know about that have had us so upset since 2003.

Originally positive terms were devalued in the last decades (social state became "welfare dictatorship"). The erosion of the basic Keynesian consensus in Germany meant turning away from the interventionist welfare state. Social dislocations are charged to the impacted. The scandal of poverty mutates to the scandal of the poor themselves.